I feel like it’s easier to use the monochrome mode of the phone than these icons
Not Google related, but whoever decide that the best color scheme for an Office suite should be light grey text on a white background deserves to be flogged.
What’s three font used in the heading? Is it some flavour of Helvetica?
My wife really really really wanted a MacBook in 2020 and the major plus is of having it is that I got to steal all the fonts. Mostly, I just wanted Helvetica lol
Man… I might be showing my age, but checking out some of the links in these replies gave me nostalgia for the website FontsnThings.com (or was it “FontsandThings”?). I used to love browsing that shit as a kid and downloading all the coolest looking fonts lol
Anyone else?
It certainly looks a lot like Helvetica. Probably could be any of these Helvetica clones:
I will also say that it feels a lot like Inter to me, which it’s not as the i-dots aren’t round, but maybe you’ll enjoy that one anyways…
It does not seem to have consistent kerning.
Grotesk maybe. The curve of “h” doesn’t seem to go high enough. Otherwise pretty close.
Probably Roboto.
In case you want to feel old, this change happened almost 10 years ago now fellow grandpas.
Bro what
I confused it with their other branding changes from 2015, who cares I don’t use google anymore lol
Ok so for me it’s the 2012 maps logo, the 2013 gmail and the 2015 calendar logo.
Damn, my 30s flew by if 2020 was 10 years ago
What I keep seeing: $ $ $ $ $
I filed a very irritated Radar / Feedback (Apple’s terms for bug reports) with Apple when the icons for apps all turned to rounded squares. I compared them to Google’s icons and challenged them on making everything harder to distinguish.
I hate contemporary GUI design. Not all of it, but probably half.
God I miss the original Material Design
Color is the first thing the eyes tend to notice, then shape, then lines and details. The new icons all look the same at the edge of my vision, I have to look at them straight on to distinguish them. Individually each one is fine but together, like what the hell?
I don’t rawdog Google icons anymore anyway, I use an icon pack
Its one of those things u never think about as a person without disabilities, cuz i can tell the difference just fine, i guess they should have consulted someone with a vision impairment when considering stuff like this.
The homogenization of these icons has been a long source of consternation for me.
They’re barely functional as icons; you can scroll right by them and miss them; which makes finding the apps in a list of apps a bit annoying sometimes. Removing each icon’s unique color scheme and replacing it with the ‘company 4 colors’ was the stupidest fucking idea ever.
Even more infuriating is how they keep renaming the applications to unexpected things every so often; so they move around; and it’s dreadfully annoying to remember if they prefixed the name of the app with a G or something else completely different, which renders strict alphabetical sorting a bit moot.
It can get even worse. My phone lets me do this to my icons which is ridiculous. I think this was opt-in but now that I’m going through my settings again I can’t actually figure out how to turn it off lol
This is Material You icons; and this is basically not something you can opt out of…that I know of. You may want to find a different Launcher that allows you to load icon packs or disable that Material You behavior. (If yours doesn’t)
Long press the homescreen, wallpaper and style, themed icons
Just had to comment on your elegance and class good sir. Carry on!
Pardon; but I do happen to be a lady; thank you.
Just had to comment on your elegance and class good
sirma’am. Carry on!Yikes with the down votes sheesh. Some redditors snuck through!
People simultaneously justifying their jobs but not willing to make significant, meaningful changes
It’s not even more aesthetic. Just more unified in branding.
I think what really bothers me about the aesthetics is that the shapes are broken up by the coloration. For example, the pin icon for Google Maps looks almost like a hook, because the yellow has little contrast on this white background.
Yeah, the old logos were all over the place. At first glance it’s not obvious they’re all Google apps.
And? All of those being part of the same walled garden is a bug in the legal system not a feature.
Better be explicit about the walled garden rather than being diffuse about it
To me, that’s just the case for camera and calendar. Maps is IMHO perfect (except the unnecessary G) and the red-and-white envelope is quite well-known.
And the interface of their apps are still incoherent af. I don’t know how, but they manage to make things worse every time
It’s ok, they’ll just retire the service eventually.
I definitely find it more aesthetically pleasing. Just like the icon packs.
Whatever. It sucks ass is the point.
My point is that it’s also ugly.
And that’s why I don’t really hate it. I hate Google, but I think it’s a neat design choice. I still hate Microsoft’s icon design a lot though, they can’t seem to stick with one thing.
There’s always a yoyo effect with design. I fully expect Google to swing back to gothic palette and highly detailed icon within the next decade.
Custom icon packs for the win!
What I see:
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